Railroad-tie.



0.11. SUMMERSON, JR.

RAILROAD TIE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 16, 1912,

Patented June 3, 1913.

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CHARLES SUMMERSON, JR, 0F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAILROAD-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 3, 1913.

Application filed September 18, 1912. Serial N 0. 720,569.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES H. MERSON, Jr., acitizen of the United residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Alleghenyand State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in RailroadTies, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in railroad ties and has for itsobject to provide a combined tie and rail locking device.

Another object of the invention is to provide a railroad tie havingmeans contained therein whereby rails may be secured thereto.

With the above and other objects in view which will be more fully setforth in the following specification I have invented the deviceillustrated drawings in which Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improvedtie, Fig. 2 is. an elevational view thereof showing rails in verticalsections secured thereto, Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on line A-Aof Fig. 1, Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on line BB of Fig. 3,looking in the direction of the arrows, Fig. .5 is a sectional viewtaken on line C-C of Fig. 3 looking in the direction of the arrows andFig. 6 is an clevational detail view of a support for a wedging member.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout thespecification and in the several views in the drawings in which- 1indicates a railway tie being wholly or partially hollow to receivemembers 2 and 3 having walls, 4 and .5 with inclined slots 6 and 7, inwhich pins 8 and 9 on which the wedging members 10 and 11 are mounted,seat, whereby said members 10 and 11 are hingedly supported.

Integral with the upper surface 12 are SUM- States,

upwardly extending lugs 13 and 14 having recesses 15 and 16 to receiveone of the flanges 17 and 18 of therails 19 and 20. Directly above themembers 10 and 11 and seated on flanges 21 and 22 and 23 and 24 areremovable members 25 and 26. And slidably mounted on said last flangesare members 27 and 28 having integral upstanding lugs 29 and 30 withrecesses 31 and 32 to receive the opposing flanges 33 and 34 of the baseof said rails. Said members 27 and 28 are also provided with dependingintegral lugs 35 and 36 having racked edges 37 and 38, whichare adaptedto be engaged in the accompanying by the arcuate racked surfaces 39 and40 of the members 10 and 11 whereby the said members 29 and 30 areforced hard against the rails 19 and 20 thereby locking said railsbetween the members 13 and 30 and 14 and 29. The greater the jar uponsaid ties the tighter the members 10 and 11 bind the members 35 and 36in locked position. The members 27 and 28 are provided with flanges 41and 42 slidable in the grooves 43 and 44 near the upper edges of theside walls 45 and 46 of said tie whereby said members are held againstvertical displacement.

To remove a rail all that is necessary to be done is to lift out themembers 26 of the ties and disengage the member 11 members 36 and slidethe members 28 away from the rail 20 when said rail may be readilyremoved. It will be noted that as the left hand members 13 and 14 areintegral with the upper surface of the tie 1 by reversing the positionof every alternate tie each of the rails will be held on each of itssides by a lug integral with the ties at a distance apart of every othertie, thus the rails may be supported principally by the fixed lugs 13and 14.

Having now described my invention that which I claim to be new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A railway tie having railengaging members having a part depending into said tie, means forlocking the same, said means consisting of a pivoted member,said depending part having teeth and said pivoted member having teeth to engagetherewith.

2. A railway tie having a pair of integral rail engaging members adaptedto engage opposing sides of two rails, a pair of sliding rail engagingmembers on said tie adapted to engage the opposing sides of said rails,said sliding members having racks depend ing thereupon whereby they areheld in position, wedging members adapted to engage said dependingmembers,said wedging members being hinged.

3. A railway tie having a pair of integral rail engaging members adaptedto engage opposing sides of two rails, a pair of sliding rail engagingmembers on said tie adapted to engage the opposing sides of said rails,said sliding members having racks depending thereupon whereby they areheld in position, wedging members adapted to engage members, saidwedglng said depending members being hinged and having arcuate rackedsurfaces to engage said depending members.

at. A railway tie having a pair of integral rail engaging membersadapted to engage opposing sides of two rails, a pair of sliding railengaging members on said tie adapted to engage the opposing sidesof saidrails, said sliding members having racks depending thereupon wherebythey are held in position, wedging members adapted to engage saiddepending members, said wedging members being hinged and having arcuateracked surfaces to engage said depending members, and means for holdingsaid sliding members against vertical movement.

5. A railway tie having rail engaging members having a part dependinginto said tie, means for locking the same, said means consisting of apivoted member, said depending part having teeth and said pivoted memberhaving teeth'to engage therewith, said first members being slidable.

6. A railway tie having rail engaging members having a part dependinginto said tie, means for locking the same, said means consisting of apivoted member,said depending part having teeth, said pivoted memberhaving teeth ,to engage therewith, said first members being slidable,opposing flanges in said tie on which said rail engaging members areslidable.

7 A railway tie having rail engaging members having a part dependinginto said tie, means for locking the same, said means consisting of apivoted member, said depending part having teeth, said pivoted memberhaving teeth to engage therewith, said first members being slidable,opposing flanges in said tie on which said rail engaging members areslidable, and integral rail engaging members on said tie wit-h whichsaid sliding members are adapted to coact to hold rails.

8. A railway tie having rail engaging members having a part dependinginto said tie, means for locking the same, said means consisting of apivoted member,said depending part having teeth, said pivoted memberhaving teeth to engage therewith, said first members being slidable,opposing fianges in said tie on which said rail engaging members areslidable, integral rail engaging members on said tie with which saidsliding members are adapted to coact to hold rails, one of said slidingmembers being between said rails.

9. A railway tie having rail engaging members having a part dependinginto said tie, means for locking the same, said means consisting of apivoted member, said depending part having teeth, said pivoted memberhai ing' teeth to engage therewith, said first members being slidable,opposing flanges in said tie on which said rail engaging members areslidable, integral rail engaging members on said tie with which saidsliding members are adapted to coact to hold rails, one of said slidingmembers being between said rails and another of said sliding members onthe outer side of one of said rails.

10. A railway tie having rail engaging members having a part dependinginto said tie, means for locking the'same, said means consisting of apivoted member,said depending part having teeth, said pivoted memberhaving teeth toengage therewith, means for holding said locking membersinto engagement with said sliding members.

11. A railway tie having rail engaging members having a part dependinginto said tie, means for locking the same, said means consisting of apivoted member, said depending part having teeth, said pivoted memberhaving teeth to engage therewith, means for holding said locking membersinto engagement with said sliding members, said means forming portionsof the upper surface of said tie.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CH i-LRLFJS H. SUMMERSON, JR. lVitnesses CHARLES H. SMITH, CHAS. H.ERNEST.

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